Question: Does Self-Esteem Matter?
Am I to have self-esteem? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:
Self-Esteem is Required
Self-esteem is confidence in your own worth. It's good. You and everybody else should have it. The difficulty is that in this material world we are taught to have a false sense of self-esteem based on the temporary material body. Since the material body is not the actual self, being only a covering of the self like a garment, to have self-esteem based on thinking oneself to be the material body cannot bring actual satisfaction to the self.
Therefore in Vedic culture, self-esteem or confidence in one's own worth is based on the actual identity of the self as an eternal spiritual being. This is real self-esteem, to understand that I am the eternal servant of God. Such a sense of genuine self-esteem brings eternal peace and happiness to the self, while the false self-esteem based on the material body brings in the end complete psychological devastation.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Therefore in Vedic culture, self-esteem or confidence in one's own worth is based on the actual identity of the self as an eternal spiritual being. This is real self-esteem, to understand that I am the eternal servant of God. Such a sense of genuine self-esteem brings eternal peace and happiness to the self, while the false self-esteem based on the material body brings in the end complete psychological devastation.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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